There are certain sewing chores that we all avoid if we can. Some people avoid buttonholes, others hate gathering. I myself hate to fill bobbins. It just seems like such a waste of time when I'd really rather be sewing. They always run out of thread right when I am in the middle of sewing, happily cruising along in a state of flow. Then the Pfaff little bobbin low light comes on and the machine nags at me and stops everything. I swear, Mrs. Pfaff here is like sewing with a mother-in-law. A German dominatrix mother-in-law. When I do everything right, she purrs along nicely, but let that bobbin run low, or leave the needle in the too low position and WHAM, I'm in trouble.
I have a pair of blue linen pants to finish- except for the bobbin thread I could finish today. But that means that I have to set up the bobbin winder and wind it. Not exactly like chopping wood or working on the chain gang, but I resent having to do it. I want to be finished! I don't want to stop everything to fulfill Mrs. Pfaff's unreasonable thread demands!
It's funny. I don't mind ironing, or gathering or any other dreaded sewing task. I don't even mind cutting things out. (I like to see how little fabric I can use, so that's always a fun challenge.) But I hate winding bobbins.
What sewing chores do you avoid?
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I will happily wind your bobbin if you could come over and finish blind hemming a skirt and dress I finished this weekend. :)
I used to hate winding the bobbin also. I would stop sewing for the day when the bobbin ran out. But since I got my present machine it is so quick and easy, even fun to wind the bobbin that I don't bat an eye. However..... tracing I hate. And turning tubes.
Changing the thread and winding a bobbin on my new machine are so quick and easy they are no longer on my dreaded chore list. I don't mind blind hemming, or even hand-sewing, and I will grudgingly endure gathers when necessary. But oh, how I loathe the sewing on of a hook-and-eye (or snaps). It drives me to profanity every single time, and never, ever comes out neatly.
I hate cleaning up after myself when I'm done sewing (or when I've thrown in the towel for the day). But I'm getting better - it's just so much nicer to sew when the table isn't piled up with crap and reminders of the last wadder.
Ann - treat yourself to a Fasturn set for those tubes. I was using mine today to run elastic through the casing along the lower edge of a short sleeve on my daughter's shirt I had been searching in vain for a safety pin or my elastic threading doohickeys when i came across my Fasturn set. I had those strips of elastic through in half a minute, if that.
Oh how I hate to gather. I don't even like the WORD "gather". It annoys me. A lot.
Do you have a bobbin winder? Like a Side Winder? Just wondering if that would help or if you already have one and you still have bobbin anxiety. I know that's an annoying question (and yet I felt compelled to ask it anyway). I mean, I don't have a gathering foot, but I don't really believe that would alleviate my gathering anxiety and it would really irritate me if someone asked me if I had one.
my word verification is "floin". Which probably rhymes with "burgoyne" but when I first saw it I thought it probably was "flowin'"... like, if you had a Side Winder, your bobbin filling would be flowin' and you'd feel better.
I don't hate winding bobbins as much as you do, but almost since I wind bobbins for my bob n serge for the coverstitch, that's usually 2, and one for the sewing machine. I hate setting up and changing the thread on my serger, sewing machine and coverstitch. Now I have a machine for topstitching and one for buttonholes (vintage) so that's 2 more machines to set up. That's the job I hate the most.
I have a demanding Pfaff, too. When the light comes on I just opent the little door to the bobbin and the light won't work with that door open. I sew until the thread is GONE, and that bobbin thread lasts longer than you might think.
I hate tracing patterns and making sure all the markings are transferred to the fabric
Changing serger thread is high on my list of unfavorite chores. Altering patterns, too. Bobbin winding I don't mind--the Bernina has a good bobbin winder.
Mrs. Pfaff -- LOL - I totally identify. My 'hate to do' sewing chore is trying stuff on during construction to see if it fits. Especially in winter!
I hate making alterations - they are so time consuming! So... you'd think I'd use a lot more TNTs wouldn't you? Also, I must not like lining jackets. Right now I have two jackets that have been finished for over a year just waiting for their linings.
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